Groundwater in the Earth's critical zone: Relevance to large-scale patterns and processes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3052-3069

  Fan, Ying ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

earth system models; ecosystems; groundwater

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; RUNOFF;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GROUNDWATER PROCESS; INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING; WATER TABLE DEPTHS;

GROUNDWATER;

ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROUNDWATER; NICHE PARTITIONING; TOPOSEQUENCE; WETLAND;

EID: 85027942652     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017037     Document Type: Article

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